There was a fanfic, many years ago. Written after S2 started because it indirectly referenced, explained, lesson zero.

We find out much later, that Twilight was a golem made by Celestia, to accept the darkness from Luna, and be sacrificed, killing NMM forever.

But Tia fell in love with the "foal" - for it had to be raised as if it were a pony, to be capable of accepting a pony-soul, or whatever exactly the darkness that took over Luna was called by.

So she severed the magical link forcing a golem to love its maker, and found a couple, foalless, formerly of her employ, to raise the "foal"

I'd thought this first image was made as an homage to that 'fic, so when I had cause to try to remember the name of it, I went looking - oh! so much art from JJ. Not the style, so much, that was influential, but the ideas all seemed to be there on the page.

Just generic enough we could put ourselves into what was made, I guess.

Why does this come up? I was in a cytube room that had this music video, very recently made. Its interpretation of Flutts as a low-key villain put me in mind of the time Twilight's magic was bound by a safeword only Celestia and Spike knew -- in case she lost the ability to discern reality again.

So, I wondered if anyone had celebrated that AU with music, but I can't remember it. Do any of you know about the time unicorn-Twiley was disturbed by Rarity's macabre curtains of death, and continued down the spiral until she elevated herself to godhood to steal the sun from Celestia only to be struck with a regret-spell from Luna who explained it only works on ponies, therefore Twilight had a soul ?